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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 17:05:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: Environment variable named !:: (exclamation mark + colon + colon)
To: tzccinct <tzccinct@gmail.com>
From: Csaba Raduly via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 15:25, tzccinct wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have found an environment variable that has a strange name `!::'
> (exclamation mark + colon + colon) on my terminal (both mintty and Tera
> Term). The value is also strange, `::\' (colon + colon + backslash).
>
> $ env | sort | head -n 3
> !::=::\
> _=/usr/bin/env
> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
>

This seems to be related :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/251174/strange-environment-variable-in-cygwin

Csaba
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